Mi new aspect as speaker (as the Spanish cultural representative on campus I made couple of presentations about Spain for teachers) took me out of routine today: foreign teachers who work here did know nothing about me until the presentations, and after meeting me they remembered their times as newly arrived people and how lonely they felt, so now all of them offer to give me a ray when I need it, ask me if I already have plans for thanksgiving… Today I had lunch at an Italian restaurant with two math teachers: one came from Eritrea and the other one from India. I had gnocchi veronese after yankee cuisine filter, they cannot be compared with nonna Donatti’s food, but they were quite good; and I enjoyed that conversation I like so much between people who had been in more than one country, a luxury in Texas.